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fork bomb: n. [Unix] A particular species of wabbit that can be written in one line of C (main() {for(;;)fork();}) or shell ($0 & $0 &) on any Unix system, or occasionally created by an egregious coding bug. A fork bomb process 'explodes' by recursively spawning copies of itself (using the Unix system call fork(2)). ...

wabbit: n. 1. A legendary early hack reported on a System/360 at RPI and elsewhere around 1978. ...